A visual history of elections

• Auteur : Zvonimir Novak
• Publisher: The Escape
• Editing : November 2, 2019
• Length : 240 Pages
• EAN : 978-2373090659

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Since the establishment of universal suffrage, the specter of the politician in the electoral campaign has haunted France. The people of this country where people are reluctant to delegate and mandate have always been wary of candidates and elected officials. Every opportunity is good to accuse them of promising the moon and claiming exorbitant privileges. And as this nation has always concentrated a high density of artists with committed brushes and rabid illustrators, it expresses its gagging through a visual production of a unique insolence in the world.

Batches of tasty images of impertinence, from militant propaganda, popular imagery, but also from the electoral struggle, will thus brilliantly slash the ambitions of arrogant politicians, with great blows of penciled cowries and illustrated anger . Posters, leaflets, postcards, press cartoons and various visual guerrillas reveal to us the twisted mechanisms of our political system and tell of the terrible battles for power.

Professions of faith, campaign leaflets, electoral programs and portraits of candidates are all testimonies to the very absurdity of this democracy. The great electoral circus vividly recounts the graphic war that rages there. It’s exhilarating… and instructive.

Authors biography
Professor of applied arts and journalist, Zvonimir Novak specializes in political imagery. He is the author of several books on these subjects, including Tricolores. A visual history of the right and the extreme right (L’échappée, 2011) and Agit-tracts. A century of political and military actions (L’échappée, 2015).

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